So they have issued a warrant for the arrest of Michael Jackson on allegations of child molestation. Last time this happened (10 years ago), he settled the case financially with the family and charges were never pressed. That's always left me kind of questioning as to how valid the charges were. No one knows how much money the case was settled for, but if I'm a parent and someone rapes my kid, is there enough money in the world for me to not want to see them locked up and the key thrown away? Plus, if its Michael Jackson, and I'm responsible for putting him behind bars, wouldn't the book and movie deals and talk show appearances be enough to make me pretty well off anyway? Or maybe I don't want the book and movie deals. Maybe I just want to keep my kids face out of the media. So its either a trial where his identity is protected, or take the pay off. I wonder how much of a payoff justice is worth?

I wonder what's going to happen with this one. Now all kidding aside... I don't know if he did it or not. I don't know if he did it last time or not. But what the fuck kind of parent allows their 12 year old child to go over to Michael Jackson's house to play. Forget the past allegations of child molestation. Forget the baby dangling out the window. We're talking about a delusional freak here. A man who expects us to believe the only plastic surgery he's had was a single nose job to "help him breathe better." A man who thinks he's the reincarnation of Peter Pan (who was a fictional character to begin with). For God's sake, he tried to buy the remains of the fucking Elephant Man. The man is psycho. Pure and simple. Add in the known preference for the company of young boys and the past allegation of sexual misconduct and you have to seriously question the parenting ability of anyone who allows their kids to hang with him. Worse you have to question the morality of anyone who suddenly turns around and claims they were shocked to learn that Jacko was doing something inappropriate.

*sigh*

I let my 16 year old daughter date that nice Charlie Manson guy. I know he's in prison. But I never believed any of those horrible stories about him. But now my daughter is acting all CRAZY and trying to kill people. I want further charges brought against that man.

Here's another point:Don't you find it just a little strange that the search warrant was executed on the day of the release of his latest CD? Do the authorities or concerned parents time this stuff? Sounds like they were trying to capitalize on his celebrity. The whole thing smells funny to me.

Well, on the other hand, it's possible that the 12 year old boys he's molesting don't tell anyone until after he has a big project and has to leave to go work on it because he can't work any of his crazy voodoo pedophile sex magic on them.

If you're letting your kids hang with him, it's probably because you're a sleaze or a money grubbing whore or both.

In fact, I think in the last "settled out of court with some kid" case (wel, the only one I read about in any case), I think that kid's noncustodial parent sued for custody on the basis of "hey, my wife is a sleazy moneygrubbing whore and she pimped our kid out to Wacko Jacko".

I was accosted with several IMs from friends along the lines of "Did you hear about Michael Jackson." My response was "Yeah yeah. Allegedly molested another kid. Blah blah blah." Michael Jackson as an alledged child moslester is old news, man.

But, I too am a little skeptical about these charges. More or less for the same reason as you are. The past out-of-court settlement, and the timing of the new charges. Of course, I've also in the past done research on cases where someone was accused of child-molestation and turned out to be undeniably innocent, blowing the "the child wouldn't lie about that" argument out of the water. There actually are parents out there sick enough to manipulate their children into this kind of thing for the money.

I dunno. It's possible that he did it. But this all just seems a little too fishy to me.

Say your kid's been molested by Michael Jackson. You don't have a lot of money. He's one of the richest men in the world. You believe, as many people do, that rich people can buy whatever they want, including justice.

Maybe the parents honestly didn't believe Jackson would be convicted; after all, rich criminals get off all the time.

In that case, a settlement ensures that they at least get something to compensate them.

well, my point wasn't so much to debate whether or not he was one. It was more of an issue of "what the fuck is wrong with these parents?"

Again though... he's a completely delusional weirdo freak, yes. Calling neighborhood children over to sleep in your bed is inappropriate, yes. But it doesn't proove that he sexually molested them. Something about Michael just screams "I want to be a little boy because I am a delusional psycho." It just feels like sex would be contrary to his illusion of little boyness. *shrug* we'll see...